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Background information Had acupuncture therapy as teenager. It did not help. Prayer did. Interested throughout medical studies Interaction with colleagues and healers in Africa, Asia and Europe >10 years Three years of research leading to book with four other authors in 1993 Presently working on revised edition CDK and CGH in Switzerland

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Never forget We are talking about people in the first place –People who are suffering –People who want to help them Discernment and compassion belong together Evaluation is not judgement or condemnation The truth should be shared in love

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Some initial questions Am I really willing to change my views on the basis of an honest presentation of the truth?Am I really willing to change my views on the basis of an honest presentation of the truth? What if:What if: I (partially) earn my living with a therapy that is biblically unacceptable?I (partially) earn my living with a therapy that is biblically unacceptable? People I love use unacceptable therapies?People I love use unacceptable therapies? I have been deceived?I have been deceived?

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Why test (alternative) medicine? 1. Wise stewards of Gods creation test everything and use the good to bless the sick and suffering, 1 Thessalonians 5: We are warned against deception, Colossians 2: We should be ready to give an account of our beliefs to anyone who asks, 1 Peter 3: 15-16

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Definition of Alternative Medicine All forms of diagnosis and therapy, that are not taught as examination subjects in medical schools. Two main elements: Not accepted by regular medical schoolsNot accepted by regular medical schools Frequently alternative paradigms of thinkingFrequently alternative paradigms of thinking

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Two main streams in practice: Those that 1. Replace regular scientific medicine (alternative medicine exclusively), or those that 2. Complement regular scientific medicine (complementary medicine)

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Filter 1: Is it necessary? Medicalization: Problems to be solved medically Medicalization: Problems to be solved medically Consumer mentality: Buy health from doctor Consumer mentality: Buy health from doctor Hypochondria: imagined illness (what is root?) Hypochondria: imagined illness (what is root?) Is it really necessary or is it the – Is it really necessary or is it the – wish of the doctor / practitioner wish of the doctor / practitioner wish of the patient wish of the patient common use in certain situations common use in certain situations

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Filter 2: Is it effective? Possibilities regarding effectiveness: 1. It does not work at all or it may even be unhealthy 2. It works through usual healing powers 1. Creational healing power of the body 2. Creational pneumo-psycho-somatic interaction 3. Pharmacologically active substances 4. Placebo effect, ca. 35 % (15-58 %) 5. Still unknown, but usual healing powers 3. It works through unusual healing powers 1. Signs and wonders 2. Magic / witchcraft / sorcery

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Filter 4: Is it ethically acceptable? 1. What would be good for relationships? Think: Love God and love neighbour 2. How would a good person act in this situation? For us: WWJD? 3. What would have good consequences? 4. What are the responsibilities of the relevant parties?

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F.5: Occultism – 6 aspects 2. Diagnosis with the use of forbidden unusual powers: 1. Soothsaying (unusual insights in the relationships between things/situations/people and health/disease; insights not obtainable through the use of the five senses only) 2. Clairvoyance (unusual insights obtained through communication with demons, including those that pretend to be the spirits of the sick or some other human). Danger: Demonization

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Filter 5: Is acupuncture occult? 4. Techniques that open patients for demonic influence 1. Hypnosis or Trance possible. Depends in practitioner. 5. Initiation in use of forbidden unusual powers? 1. Rare in the West until now. Depends on practitioner. 6. Curse or magic spell during therapy? 1. Rare in the West until now. Depends on practitioner.